It’s only Tuesday and I feel so spent. :-/ Me thinks it’s the weather + lack of caffeine. It’s already Jan 17 and I’ve only had one espresso to for 2012! Withdrawal symptoms — yes I definitely have it (and my eyebags are giving that fact away!).

I wore this nutty face to a beauty editorial stint earlier. My first peg was my “daily” taupe look but my boss for the day didn’t like it. She pulled out an old photo where I was wearing red, violet, and blue eye shadow and wanted to do something like that. I stuck with red just because it’s so delish, wildly unexpected, saucy, and well, hot.

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WAIDAMINIT. FOTD on the title? Are you on the right blog? LOL

Yesterday, I had to put on a pretty mug because it’s my aunt’s 50th birthday slash thanksgiving. It was Hawaiian themed and that alone caused an anxiety attack. You see, I love the beach and all but I never like being glammed at my kind of paradise. I just like wearing boardshorts, a tank, and gazillions of SPF. Gov hinted me and my brother to dress up and not just wear our pambahay (aka. boardshorts and tanks). Challenge accepted, I wore a dress that I would probably wear in a yacht party in Hawaii. And they didn’t get it. LOL What they got was 1) I made and effort to fix my hair and 2) me and my mom were wearing falsies because we’ve come to accept that we have the shortest lashes in town.

This is the look I sported last night. Too bad the lippie didn’t last as long as the eye makeup. :(

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